{"id":912,"date":"2008-09-22T13:10:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/912-adobe-air-runs-on-linux.html"},"modified":"2008-09-22T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T12:10:35","slug":"adobe-air-runs-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/912-adobe-air-runs-on-linux.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe AIR runs on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An email from Adobe alerts me to the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/air\/\">AIR 1.1 for Linux beta<\/a>, which I installed on my laptop which runs Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>Installation is not quite so smooth as on Windows; you have to set execute permissions on the download before running it. It took only a moment though, and I soon had twhirl up and running, which is the only AIR application I use with any regularity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/air_linux.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The release notes say that all features are available except DRM. If you want transparency support, you must have a compositing manager like Beryl, Compiz or Compiz-fusion installed. You can also download a Linux SDK.<\/p>\n<p>I realise that most of the world only cares about Mac and Windows clients, but I like today&#8217;s Linux desktop and kudos to Adobe for supporting it with AIR.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a694275a-ce64-4838-9ef9-25a05d552f51\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/air\" rel=\"tag\">air<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe\" rel=\"tag\">adobe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email from Adobe alerts me to the release of AIR 1.1 for Linux beta, which I installed on my laptop which runs Ubuntu. Installation is not quite so smooth as on Windows; you have to set execute permissions on the download before running it. It took only a moment though, and I soon had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/912-adobe-air-runs-on-linux.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe AIR runs on Linux<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34,44,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-flash","category-internet","category-software","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}